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- A four-day QAnon conference called the For God & Country Patriot Roundup is being hosted in Dallas.
- Keynotes include former national security advisor Michael Flynn and attorney Sidney Powell.
- Guests are being hosted at the Omni Dallas Hotel.
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The Omni Dallas Hotel is hosting guests for a four-day QAnon conference called For God & Country Patriot Roundup which will feature prominent conservatives including former national security advisor Michael Flynn.
The conference began on Friday with a VIP meet-and-greet reception at the hotel's Texas Spice restaurant and will last through Memorial Day.
According to the events site, keynote speakers include Flynn, attorney Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and George Papadopoulos.
The Omni has given the group a discount for those who reserve a room, the event's site said.
A receptionist told Insider that the hotel was sold out but refused to say if it was sold out for this event and did not provide any additional information.
"Although this has been a time of uncertainty for many, it is also a time of excitement as we witness political history being made before our eyes," says the event website. "What better time and place to get together to fellowship and celebrate with your Patriot family?!?"
Flynn was former President Donald Trump's national security advisor for less than a month and resigned over reports that he had lied about his contact with a Russian official.
In December 2017 he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with Russia's ambassador to the US at the time. Trump eventually pardoned him late last year.
Insider's Rachel E. Greenspan reported that after his pardon Flynn has frown as a prominent QAnon figure and deepened his ties to figures like Powell.
Photos from the event posted on Twitter by Alex Kaplan, a senior researcher at Media Matters for America, show Flynn helping auction what appears to be a flag quilt with a "Q" embroidered on it.
Kaplan said organizers of the conference said Flynn, Wood, and Mike Lindell would all sign.
-Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) May 30, 2021
Flynn and other keynote speakers including Powell have embraced conspiracy theories that the election was stolen from Trump.
Last week, Flynn said he believed that the COVID-19 pandemic was fabricated to distract from the 2020 election.
"Why? Because everything, everything, and this is my truth, what I believe, everything is a distraction to what happened on November 3," he continued. "Everything we hear about Covid, and how Covid started before November 3, it is all meant to control, it is all meant to gain control of a society to be able to force decisions on society, instead of allowing 'we the people' to make decisions."
Powell waged a number of lawsuits to try and overturn the election results. Dominion Voting Systems is suing him for $1.3 billion in damages in a defamation lawsuit after she repeatedly falsely claimed their voting machines were rigged.
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